Doctors checked her out at NYU Langone Medical Center. “I was told there were no broken bones, and it was just a sigh of relief,” she said. “I thought, ‘Whatever it is, it will heal.’”

The woman — a lawyer who works on juvenile justice, civil rights and immigration issues — was assaulted at 11:50 a.m. May 31 on Warren St., as she headed back to her office after a meeting.

She described the attacker as in her late 20s or early 30s. The woman appeared to hit her with an art supply or makeup box.

“She was angry. She wasn’t crazy, she wasn't drunk,” the woman said. “She looked like a completely normal woman. That's what was so shocking."

Surveillance video taken prior to the attack showed the woman with the box was on a violent spree.

People at a bar near the scene told the victim that they saw her attacker hit someone else before her. Also, the victim said, her assailant shoved a man before she approached her.

"I looked gruesome. I had a black eye, totally closed, the whole side of my face was purple, and my nose, even though it wasn’t broken, it was skewed to the side because of how swollen my face was."

The woman said she avoided visiting her mother after she was hurt because she thought the older woman would faint at the sight of her daughter so banged up.

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Police are still looking for the suspect.

The victim has compassion for her attacker. “I feel like she really needs help, because I don’t want her to do it to anybody else,” the woman said. “And she herself can get herself into a situation, you know. What if she hits someone and kills them? Hitting someone in the head is not a joke."

“I feel fine, because she doesn’t know who I am. If she knew who I was, that's a little different," said the woman, a Manhattan resident who had never been assaulted before.

“My dad was a Holocaust survivor, and everyone in my family was murdered, and I was doing a tribute, it was to “Schindler’s List” and “Imagine,” about peace, and hope, and love, and everyone should come to this country and have a home."

"I used to walk down the street, just totally — I'd walk near anybody. I would always walk right next to the homeless man and not think anything. But right now I don't want any person on the street getting too close to my face. If I feel someone is getting too close, I put my hand over my face.”

Despite her injuries, the victim went through with plans to compete in an ice skating competition the following day at the Chelsea Piers, an annual event she has skated in for 30 years.

She won six gold medals that afternoon.

“I just felt that no matter what I looked like … I had to be there. I just felt like love should win out over hate. I felt like I couldn't not appear.”